Best movie continuity mistakes of 1996

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Hellraiser: Bloodline picture

Continuity mistake: As Angelique says to Pinhead "Things seem to have changed" she is standing in front of him. Then as Pinhead responds "Hell is more ordered." she is now standing closer and to his side.

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Bordello of Blood picture

Continuity mistake: At the very end there is a shot of (Dennis Miller) opening the door of a car for the lady, then cuts to the inside of the car, where her door is slammed shut, obviously by Dennis Miller, and approximately half a second after her door is shut, the passenger door opens and Dennis gets in the car. He must be able to leap over cars in a single bound.

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The Ghost and the Darkness picture

Continuity mistake: In the scene where the lion is trying to get into the tree where Val Kilmer's hiding, it flashes to the lion, then Pitt, then the lion again. On the first lion flash its face is clean, then on the second lion flash its face is covered in blood.

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High School High picture

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Clark drives his car to the inner city school, he asks a punk where the faculty parking is. The punk points to the parking lot and as John drives away all of his tires are blown out by road spikes (he goes through a wrong way road). When he gets out of the car, notice that some of his tires have mysteriously reinflated themselves.

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First Strike picture

Continuity mistake: During the scenes on the makeshift snowboard Jackie uses to evade the skiing soldiers, every time you see Jackie's face he is standing left foot forward on the board, but whenever you cannot see his face he is standing right foot forward. (00:19:45)

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Mystery Science Theatre 3000 picture

Continuity mistake: When Mike first enters the theatre, he's wearing his exercise clothes, shorts and a college t-shirt. But when the film later breaks and Mike leaves the theatre, he's wearing his blue jumpsuit.

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Lone Star picture

Continuity mistake: When the Colonel appears in full dress green uniform in his estranged father's bar, the colonel's shoulder insignia (eagles) are on upside down.

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Michael picture

Continuity mistake: When Michael brings the dog back to life, he first is shown standing on either side of a row of plants, the next shot he is standing between them. He did not move at all.

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Dear God picture

Continuity mistake: The movie is set in summer in Southern California. Several times during the movie the characters complain about the heat. Yet towards the end of the movie when several of the castmembers are standing outside they all have sweaters and coats on.

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2 Days in the Valley picture

Continuity mistake: At the pool, Dosmo's grip on his gun repeatedly changes from one to two handed between shots.

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The Phantom picture

Continuity mistake: The Phantom and Diana take an airplane to escape the boat. Drax's henchmen shoot at it, touch the gas tank and gas starts flowing from it. You can only see gas two times, during close shots.

Dr Wilson

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Executive Decision picture

Continuity mistake: When Grant goes down to the main cabin and is looking around for the sleeper, the fringe of his hair goes from up and pushed back to all hanging down without him touching it.

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Sleepers picture

Continuity mistake: The last time Shakes serves as an altar boy for Father Bobby, he puts the white coat on top of the black gown, and it is all straight. Yet, when he turns to Father Bobby, the coat is lopsided and hangs over his left shoulder, and Father Bobby straightens it again. Even if the coat slides a little when Shakes leans towards the mirror right before turning to Father Bobby, it wouldn't pass his shoulder unless he did it on purpose. (00:28:20)

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Trees Lounge picture

Continuity mistake: When Tommy walks into the bar while Samuel L. Jackson is there, he is wearing a greyish/blue t-shirt that is soaked in sweat. The shot changes to Samuel L. Jackson and then back to Tommy, but now he's wearing a plaid button-down shirt over it that he didn't bring into the bar with him. Where did he get it and how did he get it on in two seconds flat?

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Breaking the Waves picture

Continuity mistake: When Bess waits for Jan to arrive by helicopter there are some long strands hanging over her face. The camera cuts briefly to the helicopter and back to Bess, and the strands are gone. (00:02:30)

NancyFelix

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Spy Hard picture

Continuity mistake: When Dick is braking the bus with his feet, lots of sparks come from his shoes. When the shot changes to an outdoor view of the bus, there are no sparks to be seen underneath the bus.

RoyT

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Thinner picture

Continuity mistake: Before Halleck eats the cursed pie, a fork appears next to the pie between shots.

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Mr. Wrong picture

Continuity mistake: When Ellen DeGeneres is looking through the family photo album, she partially lifts the page to turn it, showing that the following page is blank. The next shot from a different angle, she turns the page to see more pictures. The same thing happens again right before she finishes looking through the album.

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Ghosts of Mississippi picture

Continuity mistake: When Alec Baldwin goes to visit Medgar Ever's brother at his radio station, the brother pours Alec a mug full of Coca-Cola. Alec sets this mug down and never touches it. They show one wide shot of Alec, and there is a double pen holder in front of the cup, the pen on our right side overlaps part of the cup, while the pen on the left side is not near the cup. Later we see another wide shot of Alec, and now the cup is in the same position, and the camera is from the same angle, but the left pen overlaps the cup instead of the right pen.

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Harriet the Spy picture

Continuity mistake: After Miss Elson writes the word "Pirates" on the blackboard, its appearance changes twice.

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